![]() it's nice to be able to say, 'This guy didn't get any of this because he actually deserved it-he just got it for free.It’s been awhile since we’ve heard anything about Andrés Muschietti’s two-part remake of Stephen King’s It. "Kids in the fuckin' schoolyard would be like, 'You think you're so cool because your dad is Stellan Skarsgard, huh?' And I'm like, 'No? Not at all.' But I would get into fights over it. "When I started working in Sweden, there were people that really wanted to hate me," he says of his earliest work, from when he was as young as 10. But as the fourth member of the Skarsgard clan to make a name for himself, after his father Stellan ( Good Will Hunting, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) and brothers Alexander ( True Blood, Big Little Lies) and Gustaf (the History Channel's Vikings), Bill is already familiar with what it takes to pull oneself out of the shadows of one's forebears. It's not a baseless fear: His performance will almost certainly be compared to Curry's Pennywise, which has become a horror classic in its own right. "I had a few sleepless nights and these really terrifying feelings of anxiety where I was like, Holy shit, I'm taking on this iconic character. Still, Skarsgard admits he sometimes had to psych himself up. He needn't have bothered: After shooting their first encounter, in which Skarsgard strangles actor Jack Dylan Grazer, the then 13-year-old congratulated him on a "frickin' awesome" take, adding that he loved what he was doing with the character, man. Upon meeting his young costars-including Finn Wolfhard ( Stranger Things) and Jaeden Lieberher ( Midnight Special)-he actively avoided them, especially when in full clown regalia, to preserve the full traumatizing effect of Pennywise on the kids. You never know what he's going to do next, and that unpredictability is unsettling."Īfter he got the part, Skarsgard says he read King's 1,200-page book cover to cover, taking copious notes and highlighting clues about his character's origins and m.o.-for example, a passage Muschietti has referenced repeatedly in the press about Pennywise "eating children because that's what we're told monsters do." He was surprising me at every point."Īdds Skarsgard, "The energy of the character is that he doesn't make sense to people. He pushed himself to the limit, to the point where, each take, he would do something different. I believe in planned accidents, so I basically gave Bill the freedom to go mad. "Tim Curry such an iconic character, but performance was pretty even. "One of the concepts we discussed was making It an unpredictable monster," says Muschietti. It's the Resting Murder Face of a brooding, exquisitely chiseled maybe-psychopath, just one bad day away from a homicidal rampage. Even now, though he's been perfectly friendly and engaged, Skarsgard has that look, especially when he sits still or holds prolonged eye contact. ![]() ![]() Roman Godfrey's hypnotic gaze had the power to compel a sheriff's deputy to put his gun in his own mouth, and to make a classmate forget he's just brutally assaulted her. ![]() His remark is quite the understatement, considering his most memorable part to date has been the bloodthirsty, deeply repressed rich-kid vampire at the center of Netflix's supernatural horror series Hemlock Grove. "So I can do creepy pretty well." Dressed in a leather jacket, his hair slicked back, the 27-year-old Swedish actor sinks into the couch of a West Hollywood hotel suite, having just survived an intense panel interview involving a large group of foreign reporters. "I have a little bit of the crazy eyes," deadpans Bill Skarsgard, a hint of a smile crossing his face. ![]()
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